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hotarus

Hotarus Corp is a ransomware group that came to attention in early 2021 after attacking Ecuador's Ministry of Finance and Banco Pichincha — the country's largest private bank — deploying PHP-based ransomware and claiming to have stolen tens of millions of customer records.

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Motivation
ransomware
Status
Dormant

Activity timeline

A dated ledger of actor-claimed victims, campaigns, indicators, identity mappings, relationships, and CVE links. Each date states what it measures. For extensive leak-site histories, victim entries are limited to the 100 most recent distinct listings.

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Types: onion.

Identity and attribution

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Name map

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